UpdateTaiwan's FPC Mailiao PE plant shut after pipeline blast

27 July 2011 03:23[Source: ICIS news]

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SINGAPORE (ICIS)--Formosa Plastics Corp’s (FPC) polyethylene (PE) and ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) plants at Mailiao were shut late on Tuesday evening following a fire at a hydrogen pipeline in the vicinity, a company source said on Wednesday.

The facilities were not affected but were shut as a precautionary measure, the source said.

“Plant operators are very careful nowadays because there’ve been so many fires over the past months,” the source said.